Well, when a subject is hot everybody has their own ideas but in my experience you never get the full facts until many months or years later, if at all. I am always very unwilling to condemn anybody because we are all human and subject to all sorts of influences. Nothing of this sort is simple and straight-cut.Micky wrote:Nice to see you on the thread John i remember you being over on the Marylebone area as a relief Signalman i believe before you came over onto the North London line sometime around 1983 was it?. Obviously you worked Gerrards Cross so you would have known the signalman involved in the accident.
This is just a general observation but what has always got up my nose on the railway in the past after any sort of incident that anyone has been involved in is THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WILLINGLY TELL YOU WHAT THAT PERSON SHOULD HAVE DONE?. Funny that because these same people who are now telling you what that person should have done usually you findout that they weren't that hot themselves in the past?. Funny that is?.
Yes, I was at Marylebone on the Relief after St Albans and before going to Broad Street and then Watford. In those days we were rostered on a Divisional basis so your actual base was not significant and I still returned to the GC from Broad Street. My favourite tale is two successive Christmas Eves late turn at Aylesbury South and with no public transport back to Broad Street at 10 pm I had to book walking time. The accountants weren't too pleased but they had to pay me!
Best wishes,
John
